The location where ginseng grows is very tricky.
Except for a few trees on the cliff wall, most of them are located in a sunken gap above the cliff.
Song Nan Yujian observed for a moment, paying attention to the fluctuations in the airflow of the high-altitude barrier, controlling the flying sword, and first picked the few trees on the wall, and then returned to the top of the cliff.
"The rest are deep in the gap. The gap is too long and narrow. If I shrink my bones and go in, I might be able to pick out the rest."
Song Nan tied a rope around his waist and decided to climb down the rock, shrinking his bones and entering the gap.
If there is an accident, use the flying sword again.
The other end of the rope was tied to a strong tree on the cliff and was guarded by Tang Ling. To be safe, Song Nan placed another defensive barrier on the tree where the rope was tied.
Everything was ready, and Song Nan was just waiting when a small hand pulled his sleeve.
This was the first time Tang Ling heard about the ability to shrink bones, but she couldn't care less about her curiosity. From the moment she landed on the ground, her whole body was in a state of being like a dream but not a dream.
"Brother, it's enough to pick what's on the wall. Don't go down and pick what's in the cracks."
She glanced at the rope tied around the young man's thin waist. It was so thin that it was not even as thick as her arm.
"This is a rope made of the skin of a giant-hoofed cow. There is nothing stronger than it." Song Nan noticed where her eyes were falling and explained.
Tang Ling had never learned anything about spiritual beasts like giant-hoofed oxen, but when she saw Song Nan's expression, she knew that she couldn't persuade her anymore.
It's just a dream, what is she afraid of?
Who is Song Nan?
The genius of the Lingxian Sect, who is rare in a hundred years, is many times more powerful than Yuan Yulang. Is there any need for her to worry about it?
Thinking like this, I slowly loosened my hands.
Song Nan glanced at her, pulled the extra rope over, tightened it, and turned his back to the cliff. Without even hesitating, he jumped back and disappeared from Tang Ling's field of vision in an instant.
The rope on the ground was suddenly tightened, and Tang Ling's heart tightened.
"Brother!"
The sound above his head was blown to pieces by the strong wind on the cliff, and Tang Ling's voice was obviously trembling.
Song Nan supported the cliff with his feet, stretched the muscles in his arms, and tightened the rope with his hands. He took a slight breath and glanced down.
This place looks familiar.
He was sure that he had never come here to pick ginseng in his previous life, but he must have passed by with his sword.
It seems that when Yuan Yulang was found missing while collecting medicine, he followed the elders to find someone.
The bottom of the cliff here seems to be the place where Yuan Yulang died.
The hand holding the rope couldn't help but tighten.
Did Yuan Yulang fall off the cliff because he was picking ginseng?
Song Nan couldn't help but guess.
However, although this herb is very tricky to grow, how could Yuan Yulang, as a leader of the new generation who knows magic and wields a sword, fall off the cliff so easily?
Unless... was framed?
Are they from the same herb collection team?
Song Nan remembered that when something happened to Yuan Yulang, everyone in the same group as him was summoned by the boss.
Excluding Yuan Yulang, there are three men and one woman in total.
Those boys are the three and only girls who often act with him in this life.
It's Tang Ling.
A white light flashed in Song Nan's mind, as if he was about to grasp some key point, but the feeling immediately slipped away.
Why did Tang Ling join Yuan Yulang's team?
If the person who killed Yuan Yulang was a human, would it be——
"Brother!"
The second cry from the top of the cliff brought back Song Nan's thoughts.
No matter what, this will never happen again.
Because in this life, the person who comes to pick ginseng is not Yuan Yulang, but himself.
He responded, took a deep breath, observed the size of the gap, and began to move his bones.
If Tang Ling dared to look down, his eyes would widen in surprise.
After a crunching sound of bones, the body of the boy in black shrank by a full circle at a speed visible to the naked eye. Looking from a distance, he looked like a child under ten years old.
Song Nan controlled his strength. When his body bones shrank to the point where he could slip into the gap in the cliff, he released a section of the rope and raised his feet to reach it.
The light in the gap was dim and extremely deep. When I first got in, my sight hadn't fully adjusted yet. I felt that the depth of the gap in front of me was like a beast's mouth, swallowing up all the light silently.
Song Nan crawled inside to pick.
There is no sunlight in the gap all year round, the space is blocked, and the breath is not circulated. Song Nan picked for a while and felt a little difficult to breathe.
Especially there is an inexplicable fishy smell in the air here, and some places on the ground are sticky, like the excrement of some kind of beast.
Song Nan decided to quit.
A possibility suddenly occurred to him.
Maybe it’s not a human being.
As soon as this idea came to mind, two red lights suddenly lit up very close to me.
In fact, the light is not on.
But the beast dormant in the darkness opened its scarlet eyes.
Song Nan took a breath of air and retreated quickly, but the entrance to the cave was narrow and blocked, and his vision was dim, making it difficult to move.
A huge force swept towards his face with a fishy wind. Song Nan, who had no time to leave, was tightened by the strong force and then violently thrown outward.
The ropes made of giant hoof cowhide all fell down in the blink of an eye, and then quickly tightened.
Song Nan was thrown so badly that he couldn't tell the direction. He felt that his whole body was almost choked by the rope. Before he could recover, he and the rope were hit hard against the cliff due to inertia.
Tang Ling's shout seemed to be heard from the top of the cliff.
Song Nan's ears were ringing after being hit, and the wind on the cliff was so strong that he couldn't hear clearly at all.
But he seemed to feel that the rope holding him was pulled upward by a force.
The force was very small, but it kept pulling him up, little by little, little by little.
He wiped the blood and mucus on his face, and immediately opened the bones. As soon as he took out the flying sword, his waist suddenly loosened, and the scarlet tongue of fire rolled along the rope, and then a long, sticky and soft tongue rolled over.
, swept away the flying sword instantly.
Some ferocious beasts like to live on steep cliffs.
Such is the case with salamanders.
This is a huge lizard with hard scales attached to the surface of its body. It has a highly stretchable tongue that can secrete venom and spit fire from its mouth.
The moment he fell off the cliff, Song Nan saw clearly half of the salamander's body exposed in the gap.
It turns out that this is how Yuan Yulang fell off the cliff.
He had a thought in his mind, but he didn't give up yet, and planned to take out the flying magic weapon from the storage bag.
But when he tried to open the storage bag, he found that the spiritual power in his body was flowing extremely slowly and hard, like encountering swamp mud.
It's venom.
The salamander's venom temporarily paralyzed his spiritual power.
Song Nan's heart felt like falling into an ice cave.
This temporary period of time can kill him.
The landing speed was very fast, and the wind blew in my ears, cutting off all the noise.
Song Nan seemed to hear the ridicule of God in the wind.
If it’s not Yuan Yulang, is it yourself?
Yuan Yulang has a heartbroken father and mother who cry for him. What about him?
The same was true in previous lives.
At that time, he came to the Ninth Peak to perform a mission and was chased by a ferocious beast and almost fell off the cliff.
At that time, he felt that if he died like this, no one would find out or find him.
As soon as a strong feeling of reluctance and despair surged into my heart, a dark shadow that was getting closer and closer suddenly appeared in my sight above.
Facing the light above his head, Song Nan saw the girl in black coming with flying swords, her clothes fluttering, and her face was extremely panicked, but she tried hard to reach out to herself with a pair of blood-stained hands.
So panicked, so scared, but I flew down.
Song Nan subconsciously raised his hand to meet hers.
Two hands stained red with blood were clasped together.
The next second, Song Nan was pulled by a strong force and pulled into a warm embrace with the fragrance of blood.